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From midnight on Sunday until January 6, Italy blocks flights to and from England, fearing the new mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2. Eleonora returned to Italy from London on December 17 and says: “They made me do a swab before I left, but no one checked it or measured my fever when I arrived. Is this how we stop the virus? “
“I flew in from London on a plane full of people. Nobody reviewed us: how we plan to arrest the contagion? ”.
Eleonora, a young Ligurian who has been doing it since October, got in touch with us a doctorate research at an English university and that on December 17 he returned with his family for the Christmas holidays. His account raises more than one question about the management of the monitoring and containment of the coronavirus, especially in these days when the alarm is raised by the English variant to SARS-CoV-2. A variant registered in at least three European countries (UK, Netherlands and Denmark) and also by us, with the first two cases of a woman and her partner from England and landed in Rome.
At the moment, very little is known about this new strain of coronavirus: the infection would be transmitted in such a way Too much faster, although it does not appear that it can be more lethal than the old strain and resistant to one of the incoming vaccines. However, the alarm went off: Health Minister Speranza announced that he had signed “a new ordinance that blocks flights leaving Great Britain and prohibits entry into Italy to those who have passed through it in the last 14 days. Anyone who is already in Italy, coming from that territory, must undergo an antigenic or molecular swab by contacting the prevention departments. “An ordinance currently valid until January 6.
In this climate, Eleonora’s story leaves more than a question mark open. “Besides my PhD, I also have teaching hours. I have been in England since October. With my colleagues we organized on time, knowing that the new regulations provided that once we returned to Italy we would have 48 hours to make swabs, to avoid quarantine. We have reserved the appointment for the swab in the laboratories in Italy. “Then, however, the rules with the dpcm of December 3, which as of the 10th eliminated rapid screening in Italian airports, change again and it is established that the swab should be done within 72 hours before arrival in Italy. “I let you imagine the panic that broke out among many Italians”, continues Eleonora, “with shaky flights Last moment to be able to take exams in England. I ran to a lab and paid well 99 pounds (107 euros) for an antigenic pad. The molecular would have had safer results, but then we would have run the risk of not having the result. on time”.
Eleonora performs the swab and with her result negative in his pocket on December 17 he goes to Milan. “At London airport nobody asked me anything, they didn’t even measure me fever, and in Italy the same. In Linate they did not check my temperature or ask me for the paper to certify my negativity, they only made me sign a self-declaration in which I, under my sole criminal responsibility, declared negative. “This is Eleonora’s testimony, but also the Corriere della Sera reports several reports of lack of controls, at least until yesterday.
Meanwhile, the mutated strain of Covid-19 has also reached Italy, where a woman and her partner, returning from Britain, were detained at the Roman airport in Fiumicino and then taken to the Celio military hospital, which isolated the mutation for the first time In our country.
The newspaper “Il Giornale” calculated that they would be 45,000 passengers who have landed in Italy since the beginning of December from European countries where the genetic variant of the virus is being registered (United Kingdom, Holland and Denmark). For this the controls are even more important.
